Compressed Windows Metafile Format (WMZ)

The Compressed Windows Metafile format is a vector file format that represents primarily Group 3 fax documents. It contains information concerning the page structure and the compressed line data of the fax document. This format was developed by Microsoft and is supported by Microsoft Office 2000 and Microsoft Word 2000.

The default extension used by this format is: WMZ.

The following table indicates which objects LEAD can load and which objects it can save:

Object:

Load:

Save:

Arc

Supported

Supported

Background color and mode

Supported

Supported

Chord

Supported

Supported

Circle

Supported

Supported

Color

Supported

Supported

Ellipse

Supported

Supported

HPolyBezier

Supported

Supported

Lines

Supported

Supported

Pie

Supported

Supported

PolyBezier

Supported

Supported

PolyDraw

Supported

Supported

Polygons

Supported

Supported

Polyline

Supported

Supported

Raster

Supported

Supported

Rectangle

Supported

Supported

Round Rectangle

Restricted Support

Restricted Support

Spline

Supported

Supported

Text

Supported

Supported

Text(Color and Font Type)

Supported

Supported

Vertex

Supported

Supported

 

File constants associated with this file format are:

Constant

Read Support

Write Support

Description

FILE_WMZ

Yes

Yes

[307] Compressed Windows Metafile Format

When WMZ files are rasterized, they are 24 BPP.

Required DLL: LFWMZ. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application.

NOTE: This format does not support LEAD's redirected IO feature.

Related Formats: EMF - Windows Metafile Formats, Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM), Corel Presentation Exchange (CMX), DGN (DGN), DRaWing (DRW), Drawing Interchange Format (DXF), DWF Format (DWF), DWG Format (DWG), ESRI Shape (SHP), Gerber Format (GBR), Macintosh Pict (PCT), PLT (PLT), Printer Command Language (PCL), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Windows Metafile Format (WMF), WordPerfect Graphics Format (WPG and VWPG).